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Expatriation

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Noun

1. deportation, exile, expatriation, transportation

the act of expelling a person from their native land

Example Sentences:
'men in exile dream of hope'
'his deportation to a penal colony'
'the expatriation of wealthy farmers'
'the sentence was one of transportation for life'

2. emigration, expatriation, out-migration

migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Expatriation

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adjective (ɛksˈpætrɪɪt , -ˌeɪt)
1. 
resident in a foreign country
2. 
exiled or banished from one's native country
an expatriate American
noun (ɛksˈpætrɪɪt , -ˌeɪt)
3. 
a person who lives in a foreign country
4. 
an exile; expatriate person
verb (ɛksˈpætrɪˌeɪt ) (transitive)
5. 
to exile (oneself) from one's native country or cause (another) to go into exile
6. 
to deprive (oneself or another) of citizenship

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Expatriation

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verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: exˈpatriˌated or exˈpatriˌating
1. 
to drive (a person) from his or her native land; exile
2. 
to withdraw (oneself) from one's native land or from allegiance to it
adjective
3. 
that has become an expatriate; expatriated
noun
4. 
an expatriated person

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Expatriation

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v. ex·pa·tri·at·ed, ex·pa·tri·at·ing, ex·pa·tri·ates
v.tr.
1. To send into exile: They were expatriated because of their political beliefs.
2. To remove (oneself) from residence in one's native land.
v.intr.
1. To give up residence in one's homeland.
2. To renounce allegiance to one's homeland.
n. (-ĭt, -āt′)
1. One who has taken up residence in a foreign country.
2. One who has renounced one's native land.
adj. (-ĭt, -āt′)
Residing in a foreign country; expatriated: "She delighted in the bohemian freedom enjoyed by the expatriate artists, writers, and performers living in Rome" (Janet H. Murray).

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